I hear you on this. So much of my family is up in your neck of the woods (my mom and my sister, and my dad isn't far either). Our extended relatives are all over the country/world, and both my parents had one brother each who are both now dead. I have one first cousin, but she lives in California.
So it has occurred to me more than once that we ought to move up there. I used to think that no matter how I felt about it that I would somehow end up moving. But it's far from C's family in NJ. Her parents are both gone, too, but her brother and his wife live there, and a bunch of "aunts and uncles" (really her dad's cousins) who we do see for holidays.
So we stay here, and hope that the community we build for J. along with frequent visits to relatives is, well, enough. It's all I had. I wanted more for him and sometimes I get so frustrated that my sister lives up in the Happy Valley with my mom to do constant daycare (even though my sister doesn't WORK) my sister's very alive MIL also lives up there, plus her husband's brother, wife, and two sons. She has created what I could not.
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Date: 2009-02-26 03:45 pm (UTC)So it has occurred to me more than once that we ought to move up there. I used to think that no matter how I felt about it that I would somehow end up moving. But it's far from C's family in NJ. Her parents are both gone, too, but her brother and his wife live there, and a bunch of "aunts and uncles" (really her dad's cousins) who we do see for holidays.
So we stay here, and hope that the community we build for J. along with frequent visits to relatives is, well, enough. It's all I had. I wanted more for him and sometimes I get so frustrated that my sister lives up in the Happy Valley with my mom to do constant daycare (even though my sister doesn't WORK) my sister's very alive MIL also lives up there, plus her husband's brother, wife, and two sons. She has created what I could not.
But there it is.